Reducing Lawn WITHOUT Increasing Maintenance ~ DIY Lawn Free Landscape Design Tips for Beginners

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Reducing Lawn WITHOUT Increasing Maintenance ~ DIY Lawn Free Landscape Design Tips for Beginners
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Are you looking to reduce your lawn? Perhaps you are tired of maintenance and mowing, or maybe you’ve heard of the environmental benefits of lawn free landscaping.
In this video, I share some common landscape design mistakes DIY-ers and homeowners make when reducing their lawn that can actually increase maintenance, and how to avoid these mistakes. If you want to “go no grass,” I hope this video helps you!
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@gardenprojectacademy Год назад

I HAVE EXCITING NEWS! 🪴Design-Your-Own Landscape Layout ONLINE COURSE 🪴is now OPEN for enrollment! For do-it-yourselfers who want to create their own landscape design, but just need a little extra guidance. I’ll walk you through the design process, step by step, so you can create a practical, hand-drawn "layout plan" (a landscape design plan that shows the layout of the finished design). Learn more and sign up, here! www.gardenprojectacademy.com/diy-landscape-design-online-course/

@nolvinmtbadventures8341 Год назад

She's so gorgeous

@user-hm5zb1qn6g 7 месяцев назад

I took out my entire lawn - front and back - over the course of two summers. It resulted in a lot of work and a lot of visual chaos as I struggled with designing, planting and maintaining such large areas. Then a friend said, ''lawn is a plant, too." And I saw some gardens online where the lawn was a green patch where you could rest your eyes while walking around or viewing trees, perennials, shrubs, and annuals. Now I have a much more balanced landscape. It takes me about 15 minutes every second weekend to mow (highest setting) with a very quiet electric mower, and in between I handpick (honestly) weeds either before work while having my coffee or after work while having my gin. I don't fertilize. I don't spray weeds. And only the first year was water-intensive while the grass seeds germinated and rooted. Now I leave the rain clouds in charge.

@tatiananotami1861 2 года назад

Great info! I just replaced front garden lawn to a cottage garden and intuitively/common sense/ did all as you said. Heavy clay amended with compost, planted flowering shrubs at their ultimate spread so in future it will looks full. Mulched everywhere, now filling in empty spaces with bare root herbaceous perennials and annuals I grew from seeds. I will have Lots of cutting flowers for the first couple of years until shrubs mature. Carefully planned and researched all shrubs, their ultimate size, growing conditions. No weed problems, started in February so no watering was necessary. Tip: I used tracing paper for planning the spacing between shrubs, but I went a step further - two sheets of tracing paper: bottom sheet with evergreens, and top showing plants with summer leaves. Put two together you have "summer view", remove top sheet - and you see your "winter view". Another tip - I made scaled garden plan and then using plant info cut out rounds scaled to the shrub spread. Sticked double sided scotch and was able to move my "shrubs" around the garden, visually helpful to see the scale of plants and colours. Hope it helps.

@anne-marietuikka3036 2 года назад

Thanks for this idea of cut out rounds. I always find it difficult to imaging how plants fit together so this would probably be helpful ☺️

@bbm8685 2 года назад

Really useful tips, thank you. Also really appreciate your fairly fast paced delivery, I can't stand having a load of waffle to wade through which a lot of videos have at the beginning. You're to the point, practical and fun to watch!

@erikswartzendruber8629 Год назад

I've been a landscaper for 20 years in western Oregon. This video is right on! You do an excellent job explaining the "new" landscaping method of developing an ecosystem in your yard. Keep in mind plastic fake lawns get extremely hot in the sun, though, and they don't provide any ecosystem services.

@estherolawuyi4204 Год назад

You're quickly becoming my favorite person here. I've learned so much from you

@PROFESSORWHO13 2 года назад

I live in the Mountain West, where drought is forcing many homeowners to remove their lawns. We started years ago, before the situation became critical, and now our yard is well established with drought-proof plants, but girl! It was such a mess at first! So many weeds to deal with! It took several years before things settled down. I now try to educate my neighbors on what to expect when they remove their lawns, but the situation is quite desperate now, because their lawns are simply dying due to water restrictions, and what's left is not pretty. Its also difficult to establish anything new because the water is not available anymore during the growing season. I would love to see a video on what to do when you have water restrictions and you need to change your landscaping. I have tricks like digging a hole near the root system of the new plant, where I can dump small buckets of water every few days until the plant is established. Drip systems are great, but expensive, and you need to have a fairly settled landscape before you put one in. I also think we simply need people to get used to seeing bare dirt between their plants - especially in desert situations. It's far easier to do yard cleanup when you have bare dirt between your plants, rather than mulch or gravel or even groundcovers. You can just mulch around your shrubs to help conserve moisture for the root systems, rather than mulching an entire landscape. At any rate, loved this video! Keep it up!

@paulh98604 2 года назад

I just read recently, as I'm personally thinking about doing this, using grey water from your home to water your yard. There are quite a few areas now that are allowing homeowners to install grey water filtration systems in their homes to save water. I'm sure there's some basic DIY systems as well that will let you do this for watering. Is this a possibility in your area? I've been doing more research on this and it seems like a great resource. Especially if you use "earth friendly" detergents and it's just sink, washing machine water or bath/shower water.

@PROFESSORWHO13 2 года назад

@@paulh98604 yes that's a possibility. We don't need it, since our yard is already xeriscaped, but the neighbors need solutions. Unfortunately, I don't think they'll put in the effort to collect and distribute gray water unless they're forced to do so. We might be getting to that point more rapidly than anyone anticipated, though!

@tatiananotami1861 2 года назад

they can try gravel garden with very draught tolerant grasses and desert plants. it's very popular even in rainy England

@anne-marietuikka3036 2 года назад

Not sure, how this works in your area but I was able to transform the dry part of my garden to mini-meadow by throwing in some native plant seeds. They needed one year to get established but I have saw new flower species every year after that. It is really low effort because grass cannot compete there without maintenance.

@joniboulware1436 Год назад

@@paulh98604 Grey water is a great resource but if a house is built slab on grade as many homes are in the desert SW you can't re plumb to get the water from select household sources. The best you can do is to use a bucket to catch shower water. But a bucket is only good for a few pots. If it ever rains you can set up rain barrels.

@patti5874 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Your videos always offer important insight on landscaping decisions. After watching many of your videos, I am encouraged to reduce our front lawn.

@jacquibeaton3295 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for focusing on the environment over aesthetics. I'm loving your channel - thanks. 🌱❤

@cmbooks2000 Год назад

Love your channel. Great information. I am spending a lot of time gardening now that I'm retired. At first I looked at having arthritis as a curse, but it's actually a blessing in that it forces me to slow down, deal with projects in small bites instead of huge chunks. Being patient is hard. We envision this beautiful oasis, without considering the work before and after. I sketch and plan and take my time. They don't call it yardWork for nothing.

@lindahaines9299 Год назад

Thank you!

@visualdog Год назад

Please focus on drought tolerant issues. Here in Los Angeles we're under severe water restrictions. My neighbors and I are dramatically changing our ways. I'm creating hardscape areas and I've really appreciated your many tips on garden design! Your advice about "use" as the first issue reminded me that "form follows function" - still the first rule of design!!!

@JessicaHernandez-oh5wy 2 года назад

Great information. I tend to be one of those people that just pick up plants I like and it shows in my landscape of Hodge podge and very unorganized mess.

@tjbuttsful 2 года назад

Great information. I think you mentioned this briefly, but I would highly recommend phasing in your replacement. My garden beds grew every year until there was just enough room left to put in a pond with pathways.

@ToughLoveRecords Год назад

I'm desperate for replacing my lawn with anything that can handle two greyhounds. My beautiful lawn was already too expensive to maintain (and kinda boring to look at) but in rainy Seattle with retired racers (one who loves to dig) it's become a depressing mud pit. They do love playing out there though :)

@irksome100 Год назад

Excellent.

@kathycondello75 Год назад

Compost can and are being used as mulch in no dig gardens especially. Worms pull it down into the soil which has the added benefit of a providing oxygen to the plants. Same on the lawn but thinly, creating a denser root. Today, the real concern is the cost of water. How can we pay for water when we are struggling with groceries. Ok plant veggies but in minus 20 that requires a different strategy. ❤

@candacewalsh8726 Год назад

Love your videos! 🙏

@ribotadesajambre7061 Год назад

My goal is to create a yard of mainly natives that are beneficial to wildlife and provide some privacy . I am in Zone 10. I have not made a drawing of the game plan yet for I have to learn about which natives are right for each location. Money is a factor so I am trying to learn about propagating what I have. My lawn is a bunch of weeds. I am searching for a EASY way to compost my kitchen scraps also considering a blower that can vacuum and create mulch (the Worx 12 Amp 2-Speed Leaf Blower, Mulcher & Vacuum Item WG518 unfortunately it is corded). Your videos are EXCELLENT. You are clear and information filled content. KUDOS !

@trishferrer8209 2 года назад

I just found you! Loved it. And yes, it sounds overwhelming, which is exactly what I'm already feeling with our huge, hilly lawn. 7b, W. TN.

@anne-marietuikka3036 2 года назад

I'm also new here 😄 I also learned recently that there are plenty of different styles to care for lawn. Here in Finland, we don't usually water it. When we are hitted by dry summer, grass goes brown almost everywhere. But it will grown back green again when we get more rain.

@lilylily9012 Год назад

Thanks for the info. I'm starting a native pollinator front yard garden but I am starting small and increasing it little by little.

@HughRoper Год назад

Great videos. Do you have a video about why compost isn’t or shouldn’t be a mulch? New gardener here.

@chrisp.76 2 года назад

Although I have been removing my lawn over the last several years I would like to find more ideas for the front yard especially using paths among trees and established foundation plantings. I’d also like to know what specific grass fertilizers are good for zone 6 for paths and patches of lawn. One problem with mulch is it is hard to clean up in fall. Some say to leave the leaves. But I’ve heard they can bring problems like pests. Using a blower to remove leaves takes much of the mulch with the leaves which adds to the expense of having mulch.

@kimlittleton4943 Год назад

I have a neighbor who has silver maple trees......oh the "helicopters" in spring that bring dozens of baby maples I have to pluck out of my garden beds. They are such a nuisance tree. Otherwise my trees......I have a shrub rake and put the leaves into the beds. I used to remove all the leaves (like a dodo when I did not know any better). My dirt is so much healthier now that I leave the leaves and add new mulch every couple of years.

@ofcv1238 8 месяцев назад

4:00 cardboard is by far the best way to start raise beds that stay weed free with sterilized top soil, garden, etc. Even shrubs and trees. Overcoming weed & other seed bank germination is key; especially when starting plants outdoors from seed. Otherwise, you fight weeds all first season & completely overgrown the following year. By the time shrubs or perennials have established, the cardboard has deteriorated below. Not worth loading so mulch woody mulch for zero benefit; big cost of amount of material, time & labor. I doubt cardboard greater termite risk versus the scrap lumber pile by your shed or mulch (guessing). Also, cardboard critical for new construction or before landscaping. I have done two such projects over a Summer. First one no cardboard & 6-8 foot weeds of all type everywhere. That was loading area with super aggressive weed seeds. My latest one has cardboard everywhere to hold back plethora of weeks on entire job site while house being finishers. Wet cardboard will be shuttled around for final landscaping based on adding soil 1-2 feet above cardboard layer (some native soil & some sterilized or thermally treated topsoil (most bagged soil must be weed free which means heat treated; something related to interstate transport of invasive species & weeds. I will have zero grass or lawn to mow ;-)

@kt9495 2 года назад

Nice video ✌🏼 I’m doing the long game removal in the back. I sketched a plan and will be removing in phases as I’m doing the work myself. I’m keeping the front lawn, but I keep it strictly organic and purchased an electric mower. It’s fantastic and I really enjoy the maintenance.

@toninatoli Год назад

Super practical considerations! Love this. Couple of questions: 1.What kind of irrigation system do you recommend for the transition period? Drip? Soaker hoses? Hand watering😢? 2. Somehow dogs pooing on plastic seems like a nightmare to clean. Use a hose and you're just spewing it around the rest of the plastic where it'll just accumulate.

@vaderladyl 10 месяцев назад

Yes I cannot see myself using plastic grass on my yard with my outdoor cats.

@AClark-bq6oc Год назад

Great video; thanks😁

@charlottechamplin9063 Год назад

I'd like to know more about replacing lawn with edible plants that look beautiful in my yard!

@MrSpenceju 2 года назад

great video

@DianeMorissette 2 года назад

How important do you think it is to install edging versus re- cutting the edge every year?

@southbridgeforestHOA 2 года назад

awesome video! thanks! gonna sign up now. I have a 1/3 acre huge front lawn I want to landscape!

@erkocab 2 года назад

Really enjoyed your videos. For a comparatively small area that does not have traffic, what would be your suggestions about ground covers (shade or sun)?

@lindacgrace2973 2 года назад

Oh, I must disagree with your claim that "No amount of mulch will prevent weeds entirely." I've figured out a mulch that works: used carpet (available for free from installers and carpet stores). This is a superior underlayment for pea gravel and other loose pathway materials. No weeds get through (it excludes light 100%) and the fluffy fibers hold the pathway mulch in place. I've also used it as the underlayment for a decomposed granite patio area and a atepping-stones-and-river-rock-pebbles walkway with great success. Second, Charles Dowding, Huw Richards, and I all use double layers of free cardboard as the bottom beginning layer of a new garden bed. I carefully overlap the pieces so that no seams or holes allow light to reach the soil. The cardboard has the lovely property of breaking down and amending the soil in a few years as the plants get established. Cardboard with holes poked in it for the plants does allow an occasional weed to emerge at the base of the plants (curse you, bindweed - the plague of the earth!) but it is about 98% effective and much better than any other system I've tried. Love your channel - keep up the good work!

@pansepot1490 2 года назад

In time dust and debris collect among the gravel and it becomes an excellent growing substrate for weeds and any self seeding plants, no matter the underlay. Same happens with weed barrier topped with mulch. After a few years the mulch decomposes and stray weed seeds happily germinate on it. I also follow Charles Dowding no dig method but while excellent for beds it doesn’t work long term for gravel. I have found that gravel needs regular raking (and occasional spraying) to be kept weed free. However results may well vary depending on the climate.

@lindacgrace2973 2 года назад

@@pansepot1490 I agree 100%! I hate it when clueless homeowners in arid locations cover every square inch with nothing but rock (look at many of the "xeriscapes" in Nevada and Arizona). The rock holds the heat and reflects it back to the house, nearly doubling the heat load and therefore the cost to cool the house. And, as you so accurately pointed out, it is not weed-free for long. What they never show tourists at those lovely historic Tuscan Mediterranian villas is the gardeners marching around with torches, burning all of the weeds out of the gravel. I was unclear - I used decomposed granite over carpet and river rock with carpet as the weed-suppression layer. Both with good results. I have also used it in between raised vegetable garden beds with wood chip pathway mulch. The wood chips break down in a season or two and get recycled into the compost pile. The greatest advantage of used carpet is that it is completely free and will outlast anything else. Honest to goodness, I think that once humankind no longer inhabits this planet the only things left will be used nylon carpets and cockroaches! (I'm on the wait list for your course - I'm really looking forward to it!)

@b_uppy 2 года назад

@@pansepot1490 It also prevents carbon sequestration. I've found cardboard encourages rodents...

@lorihamlin3604 9 месяцев назад

I can’t continue to buy mulch for large areas. To avoid using Roundup I use old rugs, empty boxes, whatever as a base and I find it keeps weeds at bay much longer than even the most expensive weed barrier. The only thing that works better is partial rolls of plastic used in vegetable farming that generally would go in landfills, which by the way I don’t like because of the mountains of used plastic when fields are cleaned at end of season. I understand why they use it and use much less chemicals to kill weeds in these large fields. Growing up we farm children were used to keep weed free fields; I spent my summers hoeing peanut and corn fields but good luck getting today’s kids to spend spring breaks and summers in hot fields. It was brutal but taught me that I could deal with anything. It also was the reason most of us graduated from college or established good careers.

@lindacgrace2973 9 месяцев назад

@@lorihamlin3604 Way to go, Lori! hard work and ingenuity beats eco-unfriendly and expensive every single time.

@gardenprojectacademy 2 года назад

Do you have any additional tips for reducing lawns and reducing maintenance? Share with others, here!

@eviekleinwhittingham9237 2 года назад

I appreciate your advice to the home owner and your question on what we think. I believe the most important questions to ask are: What do you want from your property? Do you love plants and wildlife or do you need a place to sit and play outside with minimal headache? If you love flowers but have very little time, large containers may fit the bill. I love trees and shrubs but for new gardeners with limited experience and no money they are very expensive unless you get cuttings or seedlings from friends and families. The best advice is to start small and observe your land through the cycle of the day and the seasons. Pay attention to the plants you love in your area and talk to your neighbour's who do their own gardening. I take the point that perennials and annuals are more work than shrubs and trees--but not by much. Trees and flowering shrubs need thinning, pruning and chopping and leaves need raking up. You may show me your deck and firepit, but you can't beat bulbs, annuals, perennials and tropicals for glorious effect. Give me my geraniums, petunias and ivy in the flower boxes; my dahlias, canna lilies, day lilies, irises and snap dragons in the front; along with my evergreen horizontal junipers, native Redbud, Canadian Mountain Ash, Rose of Sharon, and hardy shrub roses galore! Have fun gardening or barbecuing. Thankfully we can make time for both.

@pamelah6431 2 года назад

Tilling is a big mistake. Don't disturb the soil! It just brings up more weed seeds. Not good for the soil structure, either.

@tonyalewis9053 Год назад

I want a small bit of lawn for my dog to Poo and me to go barefoot, which is a conflict of interests! 😂

@palace927 2 года назад

In the summer months artificial turf heats up to 145 degrees in Southern California. No thanks.

@ofcv1238 10 месяцев назад

0:59 I think you are 100% wrong based on your own criteria. I believe lawns are largest “cared for acreage” on earth is U.S. lawns. I will share video when I do zero lawn new construction home. I share the detail bc think you will appreciate

@brockreynolds870 Год назад

Lawns are not used for just aesthetic purposes. If you have a yard full of tall plants and now mowed lawn area, it's kinda tough for kids to play soccer or frisbee or anything else. People also like to be able to walk around their property without getting covered in ticks.

@KateEileen 2 года назад

Two words: lasagna garden! I’ve successfully killed of multiple large areas of lawn using cardboard, water, and mulch and that works great for me!

@Loxalair 21 день назад

You don't need to spend money on mulch. Chip drop hooks you up with local arborists who don't want to spend money at the local dump and gives you the wood chips instead, for free. The only downside is that it's a *lot* of wood chips. So many wood chips. I think I have enough wood chips for eight gardens. Maybe ask your neighbours if they need wood chips before you get wood chips

@b_uppy 2 года назад

Disappointed that many ecological aspects are ignored in these videos. We need to build carbon, rather than add microplastics through plastic yards. Helps to adjust your expectations regarding the perfect all grass lawn. Highly maintained lawns are poor at sequestering carbon where ones that avoid pesticides, chemical fertilizers, etc sequester carbon more readily. Live with the weeds. Buy or rent sheep. They take care of the weeds and fertilize too. Many of those low growing ground covers are slug food in my area...

@rosemarielee7775 2 года назад

Be careful with native plants. In a soft garden setting they can become too aggressive and swiftly become weeds. I bought a native violet and have been trying to get rid of it ever since.

@alinabouza8826 Год назад

Artificial turf is NOT good for environment. It would be great to avoid it.

@ofcv1238 10 месяцев назад

1:37 hello, I am able to analyze deeper than most human tolerance (I.e., your self-deprecating “nerd” reference). I am not entirely educated on your mulching topic but far more than most. Cardboard under mulch with 3-4’ diameter around plants creates ZERO WATER OR GAS EXCHANGE IMPLICATION. Your own comments about “seed bank” means undesirables explode everywhere. I have managed two major spaces during construction. I can show you fields of crab grass from native junk soil that was once 10 feet below grade…still fields of crabgrass. I could show a million reasons to simply put down extra cardboard…you know…the thousand boxes each household per year?Just 3-4 inches of mulch just covers aesthetics but cardboard does the work. The secret is to not invest 10x time on things irrelevant. Tape is neutral or inert and almost 100% positive gone in year or two; not like you are throwing trash bags pr garbage around neighborhood. I will globally share a video my full video of pure efficiency on Lamdscaping with cardboard. Everything negative said otherwise is contrived academic foolishness. What if you have garden path with mulch? Not a sane reason on earth to fail tossing 100 stored Amazon boxes to ground….and forget tape…just contrived “attention” due to false attention to reality. All the tape os destroyed all by microorganisms

@ScottIsMyName Год назад

For God sake, stay away from landscape fabric. Evil. Eeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllllllllllll. Ok, I feel better.

@ofcv1238 8 месяцев назад

1:30 i am not a lawn hater: i am wasting time & money hater. Watching my tax dollars spent to mow side of highway is ridiculous. I believe it is an older principle related to keeping wildlife off edge of highways. The deer families I see regularly on the side of road would NOT SUPPORT the cost of mowing highway!